Mithridatum - Harrowing [Full Album 2023]

Lyrics to Harrowing [Full Album 2023] by Mithridatum

Tracklist: 01. 00:00 Sojourn Lonesome darkness sojourn Pilgrim of the extreme Who dwelt in the valley of the shadow Beyond the cemetery hill Wanderer Navigator Days are drained despondent Ache to be released No traction gained Careen on the icy roadway Envision two doorways One of hope Where is the path that leads me there The other is the stairway downward Shudder at the thoughts Whispering from the towering emptiness The heavy sound of boots against the ground Thudding silent Deafening The heedless sigh of a winter wind rustling When the weight is invisible no one sees your strength In tragedy to rest the sun of days left for your eyes Blistering winds and the bitterness of the air Alas these shores are bleak and silent Healing is not possible Only in the past can I find you now Channel my grief into jaws Torch my lungs solely for this purpose The only matter that would mean anything I do not intend to disturb your slumber As you called it The great rest Though I would bring you back if I could I wish we would have kicked down your door And pulled you from that instant It is unthinkable 02. 06:41 Silhouette Incarcerated by body Bound in chronology Mirror after mirror To show you how you've withered Pale reflections desperately drawn and torn asunder Ground in dragging motions Horrid figure Lament compounded with seconds passing Set down by the wayside Gloom clouds gathering restlessness Woven webs from thread That we may aim for nets spun of false gold Chasing ghastly cackling shadows through corridors of mirrors and smoke Fear Vicious circles Tragedy set in motion Mind becomes mirror inside a tomb of no light Unclouded by optimism absurd And confidence not deserved Clarity slips from grasp Taking flight Never to be quite understood Is there more to life than a minefield of sarcasm and foolishness I sense before I became this Breathing the ashes and retrospect Sown to the floor Only dust Silence does not settle here Grey static clamor wasting life A husk to suffocate inside A tomb to abandon my aborted self The sun sets painfully slow Drowning in temporal deeps boiled into our vaporous ghosts Incinerated 03. 14:53 Mournful Glow Frigid moon in isolation hanging Casts through the groaning limbs a strangled shine The glow falls malaised on the passageway Its conclusion choked in fog The hourglass has filled with lead Rigid nightfall brimming with paranoia Shattering glass To rend the stillness Shiver sent rattling along the spine Phantoms conjured Translucent Unmoving The harvester's hand outstretched Leaden footfalls descend Silhouette looms overhead Harrowing final doorway confessed Further into emptiness Beyond dreams Life's aspiration withering Gasping cheated memory Glowering ghouls emanate from my skull No longer to discern what is real From the mind's staged trickery Walls disintegrate into a forlorn wasteland Wraiths in the doorway Claws reaching in darkness My demons have manifested Between the black holes in my mind and the winter and the void Might I persist To my senses I've lost the world around me I open my eyes to nothing 04. 22:42 Lower Power A simple symphony Dreamt endlessly in stillness and silence In the timeless void Mute cascade Washing over exulted forms Swimming without motion Comatose and existent Soothed Plucked from the seraphim strings As the fervent sands embrace the tide Figures levitate above the planet's core My frame becomes molten Smoldering to see magma waves engulf the Earth Erasing the world we knew from its surface Monuments and mountain peaks sunken to ruin below All denied at the glacial walls of self Angel wings pulverize the ceiling of my abyss The man in the mirror's fragmentation The surface exposed to the light The order that danced in regretful form Over top the ground The return diminished To reclaim oneself Or tend to untoward scars Vision blunted into remnants and desolation I turn from the crown And step down Into the splintering haze I yearn to be human Will I ever live I wish to exist Now cast into ash Dismal and quiet Unsung in the depths Rest my dreams 05. 28:52 The Passageway Alas the seasons have eroded My withered frame rests beneath the weight of years Though I yearn to persist Harvested are the grains of time Bitter winds batter this precipice Yet there is warmth in knowing you've been here before The cold Nothingness in my stead I do not welcome Yet with certainty it will come And then I will join you there Lowering a veil of woeful farewells I find solace beyond closed eyes My slowing pulse Immersed in the soothing breeze born on foam wreathed waves The sands below shift and shimmer A leviathan swell rises from the azure depths before me My reflection stares back from within the mercurial towering wave Voices of the past radiate Recalling the faces of personalities that have long since melted away Crystalline and real A labyrinth of ancestral murmuring I see them clearly Dissolving the dividing decades that plowed forth as glacial eons As though you never left The familial bond Eclipsing the wreckage and wounds of our earthly course The pilgrim emerges with an outstretched hand The passageway is opened to a world both alien and known Dimethyltryptamine speak to me Supplant these final shores Brother you have returned